FINALLY got the new wheels on. Lots of pics!

[DarkFireGT]

Love 'em. Only problem was the center caps don't fit. I bought the standard large size, and these are odd. They're about the same diameter, but about half as deep. I think I've got something in mind, but for now I just put the ones they came with on. They're all 3 exposure HDR. Some have more filtering than others. Without further adieu, enjoy.

Front: 18x9 255/45/18
Rear: 18x10 295/45/18

 

[NotQuik]

those look absolutely great on your car! what size tires did you go with...stance looks nice as well. Time to update your sig pic.

 

[Stang964]

Your car looks GREAT and I just love the stance. I just picked mine back up from the dealer after they installed my Shelby 500 spoiler. I will get some new pics this weekend and post them.

 

[timeless2]

Nice meat.

 

[The Fang]

absolutely amazing.

 

[slowstang4.6]

Looks killer. Ties the whole theme of the car together. As a whole, makes the car look much more finished. Mods too often do not complement each other as yours do, wheels seem to be the final touch. Overall very tastefully done.

 

[DarkFireGT]

Looks killer. Ties the whole theme of the car together. As a whole, makes the car look much more finished. Mods too often do not complement each other as yours do, wheels seem to be the final touch. Overall very tastefully done.

Thank you. I've spent countless hours contemplating mods and how they'll go together. I've got several more things on the way, and a few more in my head that are going to have to wait. I definitely don't want a JC Whitney Catalog car, if you know what I mean.

 

[JOEGTS]

Very nice!!!

 

[walter]

Yes for another member of FR500's on S197's club!

Awesome just great!

 

[1965coupe]

Looks awesome!

 

[menace07]

car looks great!

 

[Towelly]

Wow. That looks fantastic. I love the stance.

 

[Hoboattacker]

Looks awesome man. Love the tire sizes too

 

[kooldawg6]

Absolutely stunning Dark The black wheels are a great contrast with the red! This fall, all we have to do is meet up with a similarly modded white Stang and take A LOT of patriotic pictures I feel a photoshoot is definintely in order for our cars anyhow

 

[Emay]

nice camera work dark, the first one with the vingetting is sweet. Did you post process it on or position yourself for barrel shade when taking the photograph?

My eye tells me post processed, but I have been deceived before..

 

[ApexStang]

Excellent pictures. I wish I had your camera or camera skills. I have a digital camera, just not sure if it can take that nice of a pic.

Oh yeah, car looks great!

 

[DarkFireGT]

Absolutely stunning Dark The black wheels are a great contrast with the red! This fall, all we have to do is meet up with a similarly modded white Stang and take A LOT of patriotic pictures I feel a photoshoot is definintely in order for our cars anyhow

Oh yeah, Definitely. Towelly has a black S197. We'll have to find someone with a white S197. I'm sure there will be several at the meet.

nice camera work dark, the first one with the vingetting is sweet. Did you post process it on or position yourself for barrel shade when taking the photograph?

My eye tells me post processed, but I have been deceived before..

Yeah, that was done in post processing. Honestly, I threw these together real fast. I spent about an hour putting all 9 pictures together, which includes converting the HDR's and filtering/cleanup. I plan on making a lot more refinements to them. The vignetting is a bit much on the first one, which is why I didn't carry it over. I wanted to go back and fix it, but was too excited and wanted to get the pictures up.

For the vignetting, sometimes I use the vignette built into Nik Color Efex. It works well. But lately, I've been using the rectangle selection tool. I set the feather to 250px, and select the entire picture. Then inverse the selection. Make a new layer, and fill with black. Only the corners and a bit of the sides will be filled. Change the layer to overlay. Copy layer and change to soft light. Depending on the photo, I'll sometimes put the overlay on top, and mess with the opacity as well. Sometimes I only need one layer. It just depends on the photo.

This has been Steve's post-processing photography tip of the day.

 

[Emay]

my software enhancements have been severly upgraded since January, I now have Photoshop CS3 with all of the build outs and to accompany it for fast development I also have Lightroom.

If anyone is questioning the expense of lightroom, don't it does some amazing things in record time and it's super user friendly. Because your working in raw even the most uneducated photographer can play and not completely destroy an image. I'm waiting for the weather to break to bring forth some quality photos both out of the camera direct and the digital dark room.

Dark, Kool, I should have in my posession today a new lens as well. Pulled the trigger on a canon 24-70 2.8L the deciding factor on this lens came from a rental I did over the holidays. I'll have a few walk around shots of dumb stuff up today hopefully as it shows a delivery attempt but I was not hope to sign, must head to the fed ex hub and pick up..

 

[DarkFireGT]

Looking forward to the pictures! I'm wanting to get a new lens this year. You can never have enough.

I tried Lightroom, but it really didn't do much for me. I like the freedom that comes with photoshop. Since I shoot in HDR mostly, if I ruin anything, it's only the HDR. I still have the original exposures as back-ups, to remake the HDR. Also, I don't shoot in raw because with HDR, raw becomes pretty useless. I know there's a lot you can do with Lightroom and raw, but at this point, they don't really suit my needs.

 

[NotQuik]

what size tires did you go with...stance looks nice as well.

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